Treatment Pedagogue at SiS Youth Home Ljungaskog

The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS) is an authority responsible for individually tailored compulsory care for young people with complex psychosocial issues and for adults with substance abuse. SiS also implements secure youth care. We do this at youth homes and homes for adults with substance abuse across the country. At SiS, your work life becomes an exciting challenge. Regardless of where in our organization you work or what position you hold, you help create life-changing transformations.

SiS Youth Home Ljungaskog receives non-compulsory school girls with psychosocial issues, substance abuse, and self-harm problems. The institution is tasked with providing care for girls with special care needs.

Job Description

Do you want to help create life-changing transformations for vulnerable people? Then the job as a treatment pedagogue at SiS is a meaningful challenge. As a treatment pedagogue, you work in a team together with treatment assistants and treatment coordinators, and together you are responsible for ensuring that the young people and clients living with us receive the safety, care, and treatment they need. We often meet people in crisis, which means you work with qualified care and motivational work and provide support in everyday life. With the support of your knowledge in care and treatment work, you actively contribute to the fulfillment of treatment plans. Documentation is an important part of your work, contributing to legal security, planning, and follow-up of our operations. You help maintain safety according to our routines and contribute to the smooth running of daily activities such as schooling, cleaning, cooking, etc. Being a contact person is also one of your tasks. The work may also include mentoring new employees and interns. This is a job for you who see a positive challenge in working with vulnerable people in difficult life situations. The job is often demanding but also stimulating, joyful, and varied.

Our vision is to be a place for change, and this permeates our approach, engagement, and attitude.

Working hours are according to a schedule, including days, evenings, and weekends.

As a new employee, you will undergo SiS basic training for 10 weeks. The training combines theory with a guided introduction and prepares you for the treatment role in SiS operations.

You will work in the Ljunghaga department, which is an open department.

Qualifications for Treatment Pedagogue

To succeed in your work, you have a solid positive view of humanity. You are motivated to help people in vulnerable life situations, and you share SiS's values of being a place for change. Furthermore, you have a good ability to create engagement and participation among our youth. As a person, you are self-assured and easily build relationships with both youth and other staff members. You have good communication skills and can remain calm even in pressured situations. You find it easy to collaborate with others and can handle conflicts constructively.

You should also have:

• A degree from a 2-year post-secondary education at a folk high school or vocational college (KY/YH) focused on social/pedagogical treatment work or a degree from a university that we assess as equivalent
• A valid driver's license (B)
• Good Swedish language skills in both spoken and written form

At SiS, we care about good employee relations. This means that you as an employee take responsibility for your work, contribute to development, and participate in good collaboration. Read more about our employee relations.

Qualifications for Treatment Assistant

You should also have:

• Completed high school education
• Experience working with people in vulnerable life situations, e.g., work within psychiatry or LSS care
• A valid driver's license (B)
• Good Swedish language skills in both spoken and written form

Employment:

The position is a permanent full-time employment starting with a six-month probationary period. Start date according to agreement.

We apply ongoing recruitment.

Application:

Welcome to register your application in our recruitment tool by February 6.

Tests and work samples may be included in the recruitment process.

Union Representatives:

OFR/S: Cecilia Hyberg, 0104537273, [email protected]

SEKO: Rita Nilsson, [email protected]

SACO S: Henrik Isgren, 0104534023, [email protected]

SiS actively works against all forms of discrimination and welcomes all applicants.

For work at our institutions, SiS conducts background checks before employment.

In preparation for the recruitment work, the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we firmly request no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

Note: If you have protected personal information, do not apply via the recruitment system. Instead, contact the person listed as the contact in the advertisement.